Is GitHub Actions suitable for running benchmarks?
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Is GitHub Actions suitable for running benchmarks? was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 30, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #10 of 25, reached on Oct 30, 10:19 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 10:19 UTC.
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As I understand it, GitHub's hosted runners are Azure runners. One of the fun things about Azure is that their older SKUs are more popular (computers are fast, most people don't want to pay for much faster than they need), but the proportion of newer ones increases over time. To address this, they make Hyper-V…
This is about _relative_ benchmarking, where you run the benchmark twice on the same runner, once with `main` and once with your new code, and then compare.
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